Metro North Quarterly Job Seeker Report
This quarterly job seeker report aims to provide insightful analysis of the current labor market trends in the metro north region. Whether you are a business leader, job seeker, or community member, you’ll find valuable information to help you understand and navigate the local employment landscape. We cover key topics such as unemployment trends, top occupations, job posting data, and the most sought-after skills.
This quarterly job seeker report aims to provide insightful analysis of the current labor market trends in the metro north region. Whether you are a business leader, job seeker, or community member, you’ll find valuable information to help you understand and navigate the local employment landscape. We cover key topics such as unemployment trends, top occupations, job posting data, and the most sought-after skills.
E2C Research and Data Hub
The Massachusetts Education-to-Career (E2C) Research and Data Hub brings together data and research about how children and students progress from early education and care settings, through their K-12 education, and into higher education and the workforce. The Hub Serves educators, families, policymakers, and researchers by making data and research easier to find, use, and understand. In doing so, the goal of the Hub is to increase evidence-based decision making and promote practices that lead to better and more equitable outcomes.
Greater Boston Regional Planning Blueprint
With direction from the Governor’s Workforce Skills Cabinet, the Greater Boston Regional Planning Blueprint outlines workforce priorities for the Metro North, Metro West, and City of Boston workforce regions. Educational, workforce, and economic development stakeholders in all three regions developed the blueprint.
Labor Market Information
MassHire Metro North Workforce Board is proud to support the work of the workforce development, education, and economic development organizations in our communities. We are happy to provide labor market information to inform programmatic decisions or endorse grant applications. Partners who would like to request labor market information, reports, or access to data must complete the following Labor Market Data Request Form.
Looking for the latest unemployment rates, occupation data, or industry information on Metro North cities and towns? Check out the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ labor market information website.
WIOA Local 4-Year Plan
The MassHire Metro North Workforce Board is posting for public comment a draft WIOA 4 year plan. The draft 4 year plan will be available for public comment from June 12, 2025 to July 12, 2025. A final draft incorporating any public comments will be submitted to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts at the conclusion of the public comment period.
All comments must be submitted in writing via email to: admin@masshiremetronorth.org no later than July 12, 2025.
View the plan below.
Metro North & WIOA Partners Umbrella Memorandum of Understanding
Metro North MOU Partners Umbrella MOU and related documents are below.
Metro North Demographic Data
Click here to access the latest refresh of demographic data for the Metro North region.
Career Pathway Tools
My Next Move is an interactive tool for job seekers and students to learn more about their career options. Users can find careers through keyword search; by browsing industries that employ different types of workers; or through the O*NET Interest Profiler, a tool that offers personalized career suggestions based on a person’s interests and level of work experience.
Evaluation of Youth Labor Market in Metro North
In 2019, we partnered with UMass Donahue Institute to analyze the characteristics of the youth labor market in Metro North. Click the link below to read our findings.